Walt Disney Co has pushed back the release of James Cameron’s sequel to box-office champion “Avatar” by a year, to December 2021, and announced debut dates for new “Star Wars” films starting in December 2022.
“Avatar 2,” the follow-up to the 2009 blockbuster that is the highest-grossing film of all time, had originally been slated to reach theaters in 2014 but was delayed to 2017 and then to December 2020.
With the sequel now scheduled for December 2020, Disney moved “Avatar 3” to December 2023, “Avatar 4” to December 2025 and “Avatar 5” to December 2027. In between “Avatar” movies, Disney said it would release new “Star Wars” films in December 2022, 2024 and 2026.
The “Avatar 2” delay moves one of Disney’s biggest movies off its 2020 slate. Films on next year’s schedule include a retelling of “Mulan,” two untitled Marvel films, and Steven Spielberg’s remake of Broadway musical “West Side Story.”
Eight Marvel movies are scheduled to be released between 2020 and 2022, the company said.
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